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By the end of this month, it’s not impossible that there will be large scale relocations from Iran’s capital city. 4/5

This is not just an environmental story. It’s a political one: as the state struggles to keep the capital functioning, tensions between Iran’s elites, provinces, and people may well sharpen quickly 3/5

Tehran’s taps are running dry. Reservoirs are at historic lows. Water rationing has become part of daily life. 2/5

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And Luther became a poster-boy for everyone from the Nazis to civil rights leaders in the US - think of Martin Luther King Jr. It's hard to think of a more extraordinary set of legacies from the act on this day 508 years ago. 4/4

It also resulted in higher literacy rates in northern Europe that had impacts that could be measured 400 years ater; it also affected the nature and extent of Ottoman expansion into Central Europe 3/4

That sparked a chain reaction that included the Reformation; political upheaval that included millions of deaths in religious wars in Europe; and the splintering of the Church 2/4

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On how Luther was idolised by the Nazis - but also by civil rights leaders in the US and by Communists in Eastern Europe 3/4

Helped push back the Ottoman surge into Europe; improved literacy and academic attainment in some countries (and not others) 2/4

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Then in other news, China just cracked single-photon detection. Quantum radar could end the age of stealth. Power, redefined. No biggie.

Gen Z are losing patience - from Dhaka to Denver, Beijing to Kathmandua. They are loud, leaderless and becoming impossible to ignore. 1848 energy, with 2025 tools 4/5